They’d have to designate support specs to make it viable and completely restructure the existing 1/1/3 party set up that has been ingrained in the game since WotLK.
It is unreasonable to expect that to happen, even if it would be for the best.
And do you honestly think that the current developers would make a class complex enough to “feel like playing music”?
I think they’d be able to actually do that if they wanted but I think it will be more likely that they’d fudge a healer or dps spec into feeling supporty without being a dedicated support.
When I say 'feel like" I mean “make the spec’s combos like a rythm game” instead of “you’re literally playing a flute.”
No, we already have engineers.
Using a skill set to make products and using a skill set to kill people are two very different things.
I just don’t think they want a support role at all.
As DPS, it’s easy to gauge your success based on how fast that boss dies.
Tanks are a bit more binary - is everything hitting you and you’re not dying? Good job!
Healers - did anyone die? Nope! Well done. And some minor meter play, as well.
How do you gauge your success as a support? It’s a lot more difficult to “game-ify” a support role. If you’re doing things right, you’ll just have other people that are very pleased with themselves. Maybe you popped a cooldown that resulted in that Rogue doing some crazy damage during a boost window, maybe you spotted a struggling healer and helped to top up their mana, maybe you even debuffed the boss before a tank buster and saved the tank… it’s a relatively thankless job, and WoW’s developers really detest that for whatever reason.
I offered some thoughts on this more than a year ago: Next Hero Class: Dragonsworn? (or: Why Bards, Necromancers and Tinkers Don't Work) 
It’s not that I inherently dislike the other classes that are often offered… I just don’t think they fit with WoW’s current iteration. And yes, I do often push a pro-dragon agenda.
My read of the current team is that they really want to forge their own path. Odds are, whatever the next class is, whatever it is, it’s going to subvert all of our hopes and expectations, for better or worse.
Very likely! I certainly wasn’t expecting demon hunters so the possibilities are pretty broad.
I just hope it’s not another edgy class. We have too many of those!
Those are tinkers.
Engineers are no more Tinkers than Enchanters are Mages.
That’s a nonsense comparison.
the broke down my loot and kicked in my teeth -dandelion
Good, add bards so that’s one less “Blizz should add this class next” I have to see every month. Next will be necromancers or tinkers
Bard is most likely to happen over tinker. Let’s be honest with ourselves here.
Tinker just sounds really dumb.
I agree but tinker is part of WoW’s universe and class fantasy, so they’ll probably happen at some point.
I would play the crap out of a bard if they had song weaving like old EQ bards…mmmm
You don’t think bard sounds equally as stupid?
If not more stupid?
I’ll tell you what; I’ll take a bomb and you take a flute and we can fight in a pit and see what happens
Bards are really broad and have the potential to look like a lot of different things. Tinkers we already know will look like gnomes and goblins.
No I don’t think Bard is stupid. Since that is what my main was in EQ.
I can see trade chat now …willing to blow someone’s flute for gear etc etc
I have to agree with this. The original concept of support was great. Being a paladin at that time it was cool to be able to do (to a lesser extent) what other roles do at the drop of a hat.
Tank died? Throw on your shield and grab threat. Lol… well, once Righteous Defense became a thing anyway. Before that it was Seal of Fury.
Healer died? Assuming you aren’t already the healer and, c’mon, everyone wanted to to heal, you can back off and throw out heals to get the group through.
DPS died? Well, do what you can, but it’s rather weak at times. Bursts were fun, but about it.
RIFT is a game that did the support role right, at least early on, idk about now. The fact that the dungeon queues required a Support role in the team was amazing. I wish we could get that here.
Blood bending doesn’t sound very Shamanistic, idk…
It’s exactly the same thing.